Quotes About Purpose

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.